i'm back into blogosphere..

yes, i'm back blogging, but in a new blog..
please visit me at http://www.theceramicdesigner.blogspot.com

my websites been hijacked..?!??

whoa.. what's happening here..??
all my 2 websites and 2 recently-acquired domain-names have been hijacked by sedoparking.com..!!

www.keceramics.com
www.handmadeceramictiles.com
www.rosmahyaakub.com
www.theceramicdesigner.com

have i been too naked to my bones..??? help...!!

i shall blame these on PMS, yes..??

i'm such a grouch today..

1. early in the morning my maid discovered that the auto-gate was opened without us knowing it, and instead of being alarmed about it, she continued feeding my young son breakfast at the side-veranda before nonchalantly informed me that the gate could be faulty. i scolded her briefly for not treating this as something important for the sake of my family's safety. what if some vagrants, robbers, rapists or abductors just easily walked into our compound..??? and take away my young son..??? i continued fuming and grumbling to myself as i went upstairs whilst imagining all the what-ifs..

2. then my hubby's driver arrived for work and started all the car-engines as part of his morning-routines. but this time i took note that he left the auto-gate wide open whilst he went in and out of the store room at the side of the porch leaving the car-engines running and the car-doors wide open as well..!! i was observing and hoping from inside the house that he could be just a few seconds slacking.. but he continued on and on and even after i told him to at least close the gate first!! what if some daring thieves can so conveniently drive away with the cars..?? i was grumbling to myself yet again, and it was only 8.30am..

3. soon after, i was already checking my mails and doing some work upstairs when my young son came over to sit on my lap, sucking his thumb and holding his barney, and then started fidgeting with my papers and keyboard. told him to stop doing that but he persisted and persisted even after i threatened to 'pok' him on the butt. when i eventually slapped his little butt, he scurried away downstairs but not before showing me his hurt face. i felt so bad about turning him away, so 10min later i said sorry to him and he replied 'mama, jangan buat lagi ya'...

4. chicken has been scarce in our household due to the recent chicken-price increase. not that we can't afford the more expensive chickens.. it's just that i cannot find nice, clean and edible-looking chickens in the shops and supermarkets that i frequently go to because their chicken-stocks have been inconsistent and not-so-fresh-looking. so around 10am this morning i decided to go to the wet-market to get my fresh-supplies.. and on my way there somebody suddenly cut into my lane!! i honked at him, and yes, the driver then purposely slowed down just to make me angrier.. and i took his bait by overtaking him like a mad makcik on the loose!! by the time i reached the wet-market less than 5min away, i was still high and mighty...

5. dear hubby was still hanging around the house by the time i got back around 10.30am, so i told him of my morning misadventures and my current upswing moods.. and then requested that he should leave the house soonest possible before i turn grouchy on him too!! after a few permissible puasa-month banters and very brief pouring-my-heart-out sessions, he finally left for work, and i went up to our room, and started crying..

so are these really Pre-Menstrual Syndroms..?? i'm not exactly sure coz my menses haven't been regular the past 2yrs.. only tomorrow or the few days after would i know should these really are PMS.. it's much easier to blame my grouchiness to PMS for now, huh??!!

or i'm under plenty of stress...?? too much readings, too much information, too many things still to do, too many new scopes revealed, too many unwelcome hiccups and distractions...??

i think i may do my acupressure body massage now..

i'm a domain-parker..??

I purchased these two domain names from GoDaddy.com yesterday, just in case I might need them in the future.. or as JohnChow was writing recently: to sell them at a greater profit later!! But these names are closely and very personally related to me.. so why would I want to sell them later...???

What is a domain-parker or a domainer, by the way?? Yeah, yeah, yeah.. I read fully what JohnChow was writing.. but it doesn't interest me at this time. The names I requested were available for sale and I just clinched them before they'd become unavailable later.

www.rosmahyaakub.com SHOULD belong to me right?? Except for najib's wife rosmah mansor marrying her daughter off to some singer fazley bin yaakub.. no other rosmah yaakub was displayed at the top portion of my google searches..

ceramicdesigner.com was already taken up, so I requested and bought www.theceramicdesigner.com and by a nice coincidence it matches my updated blogger-identity here in blogspot!! Not many people know RosmahYaakub.. so I thought TheCeramicDesigner would be more user-friendly, keywords-friendly, google-friendly, etc-friendly..

I'm not building the websites for a while to come.. but with some freebies given during the purchases, I've been able to write very brief introductions which include my emails and website addresses there. Good enough for me at this time!!

This morning I went browsing and printed the web-pages: a little note underneath my address say: this .com domain is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com... I'm unsure what it means, but I'm happier, regardless... ;)

aarrgghh.. those technical glitches!!

Registered myself with 2checkout.com last sept 12, but till now still unable to sell online from my first website keceramics.com. I expected to automatically see their logo in my e-shopping section a few hours after setting up my account.. but after some enquiries with them, I was told that some things in my existing set-up need to be adjusted and integrated with their systems!!

These are what I don't like.. coz I don't understand anything about technical systems or integrations!! aaarrgghh.. but I immediately forwarded their responses & advices to my web-designer to follow up on this, but it's been more than a week.. mmm.. another thing that I dislike: dependency on others who cannot respond as fast as I wanted them to!! :(


Hey Rosmah? what are you rushing for?? I'm just worried that these little glitches would dampen my spirits and I may take less and less interest to pursue and complete my IT-goals.. I've actually set a time-limit: by the end of 2007 these issues would be resolved and I can start seeing real (sale) results:

1. online selling of my 40-items direct from keceramics.com via 2checkout.com
2. online selling of same products (if I'm allowed to?) through eBay.com (USD-markets)
3. online selling of ke-kualalumpur-GIFTS (giftpack sizes) through eBay.com
4. online selling of ke-FACTORY (bulkier stocks) through eBay.com
5. finally set-up my eBay store after accumulating enough positive feedbacks from eBayers who bought my products from above 2, 3, 4 exercises!! yaayyy..
6. online selling of ke-FACTORY (bulkier stocks) locally through lelong.com.my should these items become problematic to send overseas..

Simple goals, huh?? but not-so-simple setting-up processes.. at least for IT-cluts like me.. :(

I've been an 'alammaya' in eBay since 3rd sept 2007 but I only attempted to list my products for sale last Monday 17th sept. Yes, if you'd like to be a seller to the whole wide world.. you'd have to put your credit card on storage/record with eBay.. which took me a few hours to finalise! Then you'd have to list your product by filling in their product forms whick took me almost one day to complete because I checked out all their guidelines to make sure I'd do everything correctly!!

And as I was about to publish my first listing.. another page came up to suggest that I should also apply for PayPal.. which I agreed to do.. but as I clicked on PayPal.. zoom!! evrything went blank!! I back-paged to find my almost-completed first product listing which I spent almost one day to fill in.. but it was nowhere to be seen!! My streamyx connection suddenly went kaput?? Oh my.. the internet connection did go kaput on me!!!

I was sooo frustrated and disheartened.. and started sms-ing dear hubby to get that former school-friend of him who is now TM's big bos Datuk Abdul Wahid Omar (yes, I'm dropping big names now) to improve and enhance streamyx connection in Bukit Beruntung!! Then almost immediately after that, I went to sleep for 2 straight hours.. merajuk lorr.. :(

These setbacks are draining my energy.. I know these are just small hiccups, but they still drain up my spirits.. When people merajuk.. they'd ignore the issues that are bothering them for a while, a few days.. so yes, I avoided eBay listing for the whole week!! Tak mau kawan with you.. :((((

The truth is: I'm angry with myself!! Where is my patience? my perseverance? Aarrgghh..

i'm rosmah.. Rosmah Yaakub..

Yes, yes, yes.. that really is my real name!! Been blogging incognito the past two months or so.. but only now is courageous enough to reveal my real identity!! You see.. I wasn't completely sure where/how/what my blogging would get/affect/do to me or my business.. I was concerned that I'd sound too self-indulgent or not-so-professional to my existing and potential customers.. ;)

I was a lost-soul when I started blogging.. and being lost happens quite often throughout my life, haha.. But 2mths of blogging have cleared many things in my head therefore I'm very thankful that I've discovered blogging eventhough a close friend of mine smirked her face when I mentioned to her of my latest hobby. And I'm also very glad that those things that have gotten clearer in my little head are work-related issues that have been bugging me the past 3 years..

Yes!! Blogging has made me clearer about embarking on my internet business, yaaayyy..

So what business do I (occassionally) do?? ;))

I wanted to doodle, sketch and play around with colours and create my own brand-name.. therefore I accidentally started a business back in 1993 with all passion, guts & gusto without realizing that I needed a business to back my so-called brand!! That's why I'm still amazed how I have survived and perservered since then, coz having a business was never my intention!! With some It-basics, little internet exposure and a web-designer.. I completed www.keceramics.com last sept2004, and yaay.. we are now on the net!! mmm.. nice!!

Then as immediately as the website was a-live, I reckoned that I should make my life simpler as I wasn't getting any younger and the stresses of running around, employees resignations and other mundane issues of business operations were taking a toll on my mental happiness. I reduced my staff, my orders, my productions and yes, I shrunk everything!! I simplified my production line and focus on www.handmadeceramictiles.com

And now I'm blogging..?! And embarking on online-selling of my ceramic products..?! And making stupid mistake of my affiliate link? How 'simpler' can my life be...???? For an IT-novice like me.. it is NOT exactly that simpler!! :(

Plenty more things that I'd have to learn in blogosphere but I WILL learn this, in good time..

Yes, I'm Rosmah.. the IT-novice cum the ceramic designer.. I'm now naked to my bone.. ;)

have you heard of DealDotCom ?

Yesterday was Saturday.. hubby took the day off and slept in till 11am and right after he woke up, he spent most of his time reading the papers, watching tv and playing playstation. My eldest brought down some of her books and stayed all day in the guestroom studying and revising for her soon-to-come PMR-exams. My second daughter was strangely not so active coaching her brother to play this and that, infact when I came down checking on them she was fast asleep on the sofa. And my dear son was busy following my maid around watering the garden, chasing after the cats and making a mess wherever he went. It's fasting month.. nothing else to do when we cannot eat, huh..??



And me...?? I was checking my emails, then tried to finish off my last blog-post but somehow my brain wasn't working right.. It was approx. 3pm.. past our normal lunch time and maybe my empty tummy was blocking my train of thoughts..?? So i started reading other blogs by simply clicking the 'next blog' on top of the blogger's page and suddenly came across Vancouver-based http://www.johnchow.com/ , one of the world's (?) 50 most highly-paid bloggers. Too much to read on his site but I noted his August monthly earnings, the bulk of which came from affiliate-programmes. But remember? My initial interest to blog and make some money was shelved a few weeks ago as the harsh reality struck me: I still have my products to sell.. so girl, stay focused on selling your own products!!



But then JohnChow was writing about DealDotCom a soon-to-be-launched internet company selling IT-related stuff. I was bored and was just browsing killing my time and continued clicking on the website.. and suddenly i was laughing and laughing as I read their introductory page and subsequent pages!! Those people behind the new set-up really have very good sense of humour, thus I found myself instantly drawn and attracted to be a part of their set-up, by hook or by crook..



DealDotCom will be selling IT-related items at great deal prices to help you grow and manage your internet-business. One different item to be sold at a great deal price for each day of the year, 365days per year. Yes, I may need these items!! And they also have affiliate-programmes!? Mmm.. me thinks I should register for this programme so that I could learn more about how to run my business and earn some money as well, right?? I could even learn how to offer my own affiliate-programmes to sell my products later, ehh??

As immediately as I signed up as an affiliate partner, I contacted my net-guru Irfan Khairi, azwanhadzree the awesome blogger and some other contacts in my list. I was still unsure what I was supposed to do next but I proceeded to provide them my links and was eagerly anticipating the amount of sales commission that I'd get coz these people, compared to small me, are really connected to much bigger masses of potential buyers.

I stayed till 3am doing my 'invites'.. and continued the next day as soon as I got up.. and by the time I checked up with DealDotcom approximately 24hrs after signing up with them.. I discovered that the 'invites' that I had sent out consisted of the wrong 'link'..!!! Aaaaaarrrggghh...!!!!! How stupid can I be??

DealDotCom is my very first affiliate-partner, therefore I expected to make some grave and stupid judgements.. but to make it so soon after I started...??!! When I was all pumped up, passionate to my core, with strings of adrenalin rushes all over my body, excited to explode...???

I'm so much sober now.. it's not my rezeki yet, so let it be.. let it be.. unless irfan, azwan and others are still not signed up but reading my blog instead by chance..?? Can you guys just click on my real link, here..??? Haha.. just trying my luck.. ;)

By the way.. DealDotCom is to be launched soon on tuesday 18th september 2007.. hurry, hurry guys.. early birds would get the most benefit.. yes?